Pedro PAIVA


Nationality: Portuguese

Lisbon, Portugal, b.1977 in Lisbon. He attended the Faculty of Fine Arts School at the University of Lisbon and the UDK, Universität der Künste, Berlin. Paiva has been working as a visual artist since 2001, when he began an artistic partnership with João Maria Gusmão, that continued until 2021. Over the last twenty years, this work has been presented in museum exhibitions, art galleries, cinemas and even theater stages. In recent years Pedro Paiva has been directing his fictional feature film A-Moeda-Viva, as well as collaborating with Cláudio da Silva and Carolina Dominguez in the theater production Woyzeck, Fuk'em'ol!, premiered in 2023.

7 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

  PAPAGAIO (DJAMBI)
2014 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 43' 00 / 189 €
distribution: 16mm
  PIPE + UNDER A CAR + DONKEY + MOTORCYCLE, BIKE AND HUMAN DOTS + TRIANGLES AND SQUARES
2011-2014 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 78 €
distribution: 16mm
  VENTRILOQUISM + DARWIN'S APPLE, NEWTON'S MONKEY + BREAD, TEA AND BAO GAME + WATER MILL + COWFISH
2009-2012 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 12' 22 / 100 €
distribution: 16mm
  GETTING INTO BED + DREAM OF A RAY FISH + WAVE + WHEELS + THE HORSE OF THE PROPHET
2011 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 12' 52 / 100 €
distribution: 16mm
  METEORITIC + TURTLE + THE INITIATE + POT SMALLER THAN POT + FRIED EGG
2008-2011 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 17' 00 / 100 €
distribution: 16mm
  EYE ECLIPSE + 3 SUNS + SOLAR, THE BLINDMAN EATING A PAPAYA + HEAT RAY
2007-2011 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 8' 32 / 78 €
distribution: 16mm
  TARCISO'S ANALOGY + HAND, SMALLER THAN HAND + HAIRY STONE + FRUIT POLYHEDRON
2009 / 35mm / color / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 78 €
distribution: 16mm